The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies open before us, let’s not try to be witty, but record the worst of human viciousness we’ve seen without changing one word. When that’s done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. That’s work enough for a lifetime.
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline
If it’s not broke, don’t fix it. And would go even further, to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you’ll probably make it worse.
Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
“There are no moral phenomena, but merely moral interpretations of phenomena.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §108 (edited).
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §108 (edited).
“Our vanity is the hardest to wound when our pride has just been wounded.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §111.
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §111.